G W Bot Personal information
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According to Aboriginal totemic belief, each member of a clan inherits a totemic relationship with a particular plant or animal of the region. I like this idea of oneness with the environment. Where I live wombats are especially prevalent and they have become my totemic animal. The earliest written reference to a wombat occurs in a French source where it is called "le grand Wam Bot," and hence my exhibiting name - G. W. Bot.
I was born in Quetta, Pakistan, of Australian parents and studied art in London, Paris and Australia and graduated from the Australian National University in 1982. My drawings were first published in a book in London in 1980 and since 1985 I have worked as a full-time artist.
I am represented by Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney, in Brisbane by Noreen Grahame Galleries, in Canberra by Beaver Galleries, in London by Hart Galleries and in New Work by 5+5 Gallery. In 2005 and 2006 I have been voted as one of the 50 most collectable artists in the Australian Art Collector
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G W Bot Solo Exhibitions
- 1992
- Crucifixion, Dubbo Regional Art Gallery
- An Enclosed Space Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gallery 3
- 1993
- Crucifixion, Criterion Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
- 1994
- Journeys, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
- 1995
- Journeys, Australia Centre, Manila, Philippines
- Journeys, Australian Embassy, Paris
- 1996
- The Lady and the Unicorn, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
- 1997
- The Lady and the Unicorn, Hart gallery, London
- Sacred Gardens: drypoints and relief prints, Hart Gallery, Nottingham
- 1998
- Paper Garden, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
- 1999
- Enclosures, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
- Semiotics of the Australian Wilderness, Bulle Gallery, Melbourne
- Works on Paper, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- The Australian Wilderness and the Garden : Language, calligraphy and semiotics
- Hart Gallery, London
- 2000
- A Mystic Language, Graham Galleries + Editions, Brisbane, Australia
- Bundanon Series, Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
- Recent relief prints, Bulle Galleries, Melbourne
- Ancestral Landscapes, Port Jackson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Los Angeles
- 2001
- Gardens: Rites of Passage, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- Gardens: Rites of Passage, Hart Gallery, London
- Gardens: Rites of Passage, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
- 2002
- Suburban Gardens: Arrivals and Journeys, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- The Body in Question, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
- 2003
- The Garden of Possibilities, Canberra Museums and Gallery
- Gardens, Canberra Museum and Gallery
- 2004
- Earth and Sky, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
- An Island of Life, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- 2005
- Morphic Fields, Hart gallery, London
- An Australian Symphony, 5+5 Gallery, New York
- Paths of Being, Chapman gallery, Sydney
- Morphic Fields and Gardens, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
- Figure in Landscape, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- 2006
- Glyphs, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
- Glyphs, Australian galleries, Sydney
- 2007
- Glyphs, Hart Gallery, London
- Glyphs, Beaver galleries, Canberra
- Glyphs, Gadfly Gallery, Perth
G W Bot Selected Group and Invitation Exhibitions
- 1986
- Kingston Art Space, Canberra
- 1987
- The Blake Prize, Sydney
- 1988
- Woden Library, Canberra
- 10:1 Print Project - National Touring Exhibition
- 1989
- Wild Art, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
- Edition 89, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
- 1990
- Fragments and Foundations, aGog Gallery, Canberra
- Contemporary Art, Jan Jones Gallery, Bowral
- Focus on the Landscape, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
- Social Images, Gorman House, Canberra
- Calvary Hospital Art Show, Canberra
- Artist Made, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
- Similar Territory, Canberra Festival, CAFC
- Sun, Smoke and Steel, Studio One National Touring Exhibition
- 1991
- Hard pressed, Jan Taylor gallery, Sydney
- Familiar Territory, Canberra Festival, CAFC
- Berrima District Art Society Print Award, Berrima
- Common Threads / A Fine Line, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
- Quasions Mornington Gallery, Mornington, Victoria
- Art for Life, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
- Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle
- A Tribute to Ronaldo Cameron, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
- Canberra Souvenir, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
- Social Images, Gorman House, Canberra
- 1992
- Third International Women's Day Exhibition, Melbourne
- Between the Covers, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
- Raft Press Book Project, National Library of Australia, Canberra
- Addressing the Chair, Canberra Contemporary Art Space
- Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle and touring exhibition
- 1993
- Blake prize, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney
- Best of the 1992 Blake Prize, Drill Hall Gallery, Sydney
- Ten Years of Aquisitions: ANU Collection, Drill Hall, Canberra
- Saints and Sacred Places, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- Fremantle Print Award, 1993, Fremantle Arts Centre
- The Tree of Life, Studio One Gallery, Canberra
- First Canberra Art Fair, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
- 1994
- Open Art, Berrima District Art Society, Bowral, NSW
- International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Winter Solstice, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- Print Show, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- International Print Triennial, MTG 1994, Cracow, poland
- Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, NSW
- The print, the press, the artist and the printer, ANU, Drill Hall Gallery, NSW
- Outback Art Prize, 1994, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, NSW
- Fremantle Print Award, 1994, Fremantle Arts Centre
- Biennial Prints Acquisitive Exhibition, Mornington Peninsula Arts Centre
- Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
- 1995
- ANU Staff Amenities Fund Exhibition, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
- A Changing Landscape, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon ACT
- Western Australia Print Exchange Exhibition, Studio One, Canberra
- Lake Isle, Goulburn Regional Gallery, national touring exhibition
- AMCOR Paper Awards, invitation exhibition, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Cultural Centre, Melbourne, national touring exhibition
- Borderlines, Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra
- Second Canberra Art Fair, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
- Print Triennial 1994 Consumenta 1995, Nuremberg, Germany
- 1996
- Sixth National Print Prize, Murwillumbah Tweed River Regional Gallery
- Silk Cut Print Award, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
- Works on Paper, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- University of Western Sydney National Print Media Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
- Premio Internazionale Biella per L'incisione, Italy
- Shell Fremantle Print Award
- Xylon 13, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sydney and national touring exhibition
- Artist's Books and Multiples Fair 1996, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
- 1997
- Xylon 13: International Triennial of Artistic Relief Printing, Switzerland and international touring exhibition
- International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Oregan, USA
- International Print Triennial 1997, Cracow, Poland
- The Second International Print Triennial Colour in Graphic Art, Toru`n, Poland
- Osaka Triennale 1997, Japan
- Artist's Books, Criterion Fine Art Gallery, Braidwood, NSW
- V International Triennial Sztuki, Majdanek, Poland
- Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool, Victoria
- The 3rd International Triennial of Graphics and Posters, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- CPM Print Award, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
- 1998
- Gone to the Dogs, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Brisbane
- Tyree-Tycan Art Prize, Bowral, NSW
- Thirty Years of Korean Contemporary Prints : A Decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul
- Dog's Breakfast, ANCA Gallery, Canberra
- Picture Disk Exhibition, Illawarra Institute of Technology, Goulburn
- Silk Cut Linoprint Collection, Fremantle Arts Centre
- Atelier Point et Marge, Paris, France
- Silk Cut Award, Melbourne
- Artist's Books and Multiples Fair, School of Arts, Brisbane
- Recto Verso, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Canberra School of Art
- Joyce and the Nymph, Coach House, The Rocks, Sydney
- International Biennial of Graphic Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- Landscape, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
- 29th Alice Art Prize (acquired), Alice Springs, NT
- National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
- 1999
- Suddenly the Lake, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery
- Premio Internazionale Biella per L'incisione, Italy
- Second Skin, RMIT, Melbourne
- The Present Spirit, Helen Maxwell Gallery / Burgman College, Australian National
- University
- We are Australian, The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
- 2000
- Weerewa woodcuts one, Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, NSW
Looking at a different aspect of Parliament House, Parliament House, Canberra
The art on paper fair, Royal College of Art, London
5th Sapporo International Print Biennale, Japan
10th Gielniak Graphic Competition, Poland
Six Australian Artists, Lane Gallery, Auckland
5th Triennale Moniale de l’estampe petit format Chamalières 2000, France
Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain (acquired)
The 4th International Triennial of Graphics and Posters, Kharkiv, Ukraine - Gold Coast City Art Gallery 2000 Art Prize, Queensland
- Silk Cut Print Award (Acquired), National Touring Exhibition
- Weerewa woodcuts one, Bungendore Woodworks Gallery, NSW
- 2001
- Island Postcards, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart
- 3rd International Ex-Libris Exhibition, Rijeka, Croatia
- 2002
- Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition
- Shakehands, Neusiedl am See, Austria
- Shakehands, Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna, Austria
- Shades of pink, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Australia
- Shakehands, Halbturn, Austria Sulman Exhibition Prize, AGNSW2002
- Silk Cut Award, Melbourne Print Australia,
- North-West Print Council, Portland, Oregon, USA
- Miniare Biennale internationale d’estampes miniature de Montréal, Canada
- 2003
- By George, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
- Sulman Exhibition Prize, AGNSW
- Sydney Art on Paper Fair, The 9th Biennial Art Fair, Sydney
- The International Print Triennial Krakow 2003, Poland, touring to Bunkier
- Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland, Palace of Art TPSP, Krakow, Poland, Contemporary Art Gerry, Opole, Poland
- 2004
- Surface tension, New York Society of Etchers, New York followed
by national Australian tour
Sculpture 2004, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
Contemporary Australian Prints from the collection, AGNSW, Sydney
Sacred Ground: Spirituality and land in Australia, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra ACT
Sulman Exhibition Prize, AGNSW
33rd Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Bendigo Bank Art Prize, Brisbane
Silk cut Award, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne (acquired)
Contemporary prints and drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
The International Print Triennial, touring to Municipal Museum in Lowicz, Poland
Cultural Centre ‘Castle’ Contemporary Art Gallery, “Profile”, Poznan, Poland, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
Le tapis volant, Flying carpet, Musée des beaux-arts de la Ville du Locle, Switzerland
- Surface tension, New York Society of Etchers, New York followed
by national Australian tour
- 2005
- Sulman Exhibition Prize, AGNSW
Site and soul II, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Sculpture 2005, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
25 x 25 Celebrating 25 years of printmaking 1980-2005, Megalo Access Arts, Canberra
Comalco Martin Hanson memorial Art Awards, section 2, works on paper. Awarded Alumina Ltd Award, judged by Tony Elwood, Deputy Director, NGV
Contrasts within the Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
Works on paper 2005, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney
Fireworks: An incendiary exploration of Australian art, Mackay Regional Gallery, Queensland (National touring exhibition)
Notes from the natural world, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
33 Print Exchange portfolio, curated by Rona Green, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
Finalist, National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005, National Gallery of Australia Dobell Prize for Drawing, AGNSW
- Sulman Exhibition Prize, AGNSW
- 2006
- Dobell Prize for Drawing, AGNSW
Being at Bundanon, Bundanon national travelling exhibition
Footprints on the Lake, Goulburn Regional Gallery - Multiplicity: Small tapestries, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne
- 50 years Australian Galleries Anniversary Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
- International Print Triennial Cracow, Poland Kedumba Drawing Award 2006, Wentworth Falls, NSW (acquired)
- Silkcut Award for Linocuts Award, Melbourne R&M. McGivern Art Prize, Maroondah Regional Gallery, Ringwood
- CMAG touring exhibition, Narra City Gallery, Japan
- International Graphic Triennial, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia Cadaques Mini print exhibition, Spain
- Dobell Prize for Drawing, AGNSW
- 2007
- The story of Australian printmaking 1803-2005, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra
Dobell Prize for Drawing, AGNSW
Devilbend, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
CPM National Print Awards, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition
Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Site and soul III, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra
Guanlan International Print Biennial, Shenzhen, PR China
Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ book Award, Lismore NSW
Lessons in history, vol. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane Prints from the Studio of Hugh Stoneman, Stoneman Graphics Gallery, Penzance, UK
Hart Gallery Collection, New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, UK
Artists’ books and multiples fair Brisbane, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Prints, Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery
Gifted, Charles Darwin University Art Collection, Darwin
Marks and motifs: Prints from the PCA Collection, QUT national touring exhibition From here to eternity: Contemporary tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, national touring exhibition
- The story of Australian printmaking 1803-2005, National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra
G W Bot Awards and Commissions
- 1992
- CAPO Grant
- Canberra Critics Award, Visual Arts
- 1994
- Berrima District Art Society, Print Section, commended
- 1994
- Canberra Critics Award, Visual Arts
- CAPO Grant
- Zaokhochuval'na Prize, 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art and Poster, 4th Block, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- 1995
- ACT Cultural Council Development Grant
- Environmental Artists in Schools Scheme
- 1996
- Artist-in-residence, Arthur Boyd's Gift to the Nation, Bundannon
- Acquisitive Award, Tweed Regional Art Gallery
- 1996
- Acquisitive Award, University of Western Sydney Permanent Art Collection
- ACT Cultural Council Development Grant
- Print Council of Australia Member's Print Commission
- 1997
- 3 commissioned drypoints, Hugh Stoneman Graphics, Cornwall / Hart Gallery
- 1998
- National Gallery of Australia ‘New Worlds from Old' commissioned portfolio / Studio One, Canberra
- Tyree-Tycan Print Prize, Bowral NSW (judged by Hendrik Kolenberg, curator of prints, watercolours and drawings, Art Gallery of NSW)
- Illawarra Acquisitive Print Award (awarded)
- 1999
- ACT Cultural Council Development Grant
- Artist in residence, Arthur Boyd's Gift to the Nation, Bundanon
- Print Council of Australia Member's Print Commission
- 2000
- 2000 CAPO Fellow
- 2001
- Residency Kultervereinigung Nordliches Burgenland, Neusiedl Am See, Austria
- 2003
- Artist in Residence, University of Wollongong, NSW
- 2004
- Print Coucil of Australia Commisioned Member Print
- The Canberra Times Artist of the Year
- 2005
- National Critics Selection: 50 Most Collectable Artist, Australian Art Collector
- 2005 Comalco Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards, Section 2, Works on Paper. Awarded Alumina Ltd Award, judged by Tony Ellwood, Deptuty Director, NGV
- 2006
- National Critics Selection: 50 Most Collectable Artist, Australian Art Collector
- 2007
- Print Council of Austalia Commisioned Member Print
G W Bot Selected Art Collections
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- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- British Museum, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Fogg Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
- Kharkiv Art Gallery, Ukraine
- Lubin Museum, Poland
- Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
- Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery of South Australia
- Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Collection
- Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
- City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga
- Ronaldo Cameron Collection, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
- Tweed River Regional Art Gallery
- Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
- Gold Coast City Art Gallery
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
- Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery
- Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
- National Library of Australia, Canberra
- Mitchell Library, Sydney
- Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
- Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra
- University of Western Sydney Art Collection
- Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
- University of Canberra Art Collection
- Canberra School of Art Art Collection
- University of Technology of Sydney Art Collection
- Brisbane Grammar Art Collection
- Camberwell Grammar Art Collection
- Downlands College Art Collection, Queenslan
- Geelong Grammar Art Collection
- Gennazzano College Art Collection, Victoria; Hailebury College, Victoria
- Kooweerup Secondary College Victoria
- St Ursula's College, Queensland
- St Peter's College, Adelaide
- South Queensland Institute of TAFE
- Queensland Institute of Technology
- Westminster School
- Art and Craft Teachers Association of Victoria
- Print Council of Australia, Inc.
- Canson Australia Pty Ltd
- Silk Cut Foundation Collection
G W Bot Selected Bibliography
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- Directory 1988, Australian Artists Producing Prints
- Lisa Waller, article, Canberra Times, 10 August 1989
- Arty Facts, Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, January 1989
- Lisa Waller, article, Canberra Times, 30 November 1989
- Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 9 December 1989
- Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 4 April 1990
- Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia, 3rd edition 1990
- Sue-Anne Wallace, critique, Canberra Times, 16 March 1991
- Max Germaine, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney 1991
- Rene Sutherland, critique, Daily Liberal (Dubbo) 1 April 1992
- Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 25 April 1992
- Amanda Uhlmann, article, Good Times (Canberra Times) 23 April 1992
- Ralph Elliott, article, Canberra Times, 16 May 1992
- Kerry-Anne Cousins, critique, Muse, June 1992
- Sonia Baron, critique, Canberra Times, 18 November 1992
- Sonia Baron, critique, Canberra Times, 10 April 1993
- Sonia Baron, critique, Canberra Times, 26 September 1993
- Sasha Grishin, Contemporary Australian Printmaking: an interpretative history, Craftsman House, Sydney 1994
- Kerry-Anne Cousins, critique, Muse, July 1994
- Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 3 June 1994
- Lake Isle, exhibition catalogue, Goulburn 1995
- AMCOR Paper Awards catalogue, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne 1995, pp 20-25
- A Changing Landscape, catalogue, Nolan Gallery, Canberra 1995 pp 18-19
- Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 29 April 1995
- Sonia Barron, Journeys, Paris/Manila 1995, 12pp
- Unsigned, critique, The Philippines Journal, 26 March 1995
- Unsigned, critique, The Philippines Star, 27 March 1995
- Maryann Rogers, critique, Goulburn Post, 5 April 1995
- Warwick Williams, Australian National University: Staff Amenities Fund Donations to the Art Collection, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra 1995 catalogue with illustration
- Sonia Barron, critique, Canberra Times, 24 August 1996
- Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist printmakers 1990-1995, Craftsman House, Sydney 1997
- Deborah Hart, The Lady and the Unicorn, Hart Gallery, London 1997 44pp.
- Sheridan Palmer, The Poet's Garden, Imprint vol 33, no.1, 1998, pp 21-22
- Pat Gilmour, G.W.Bot: Poetry of Line, Art and Australia, 1998/2 pp 518-521
- Thirty Years of Korean Contemporary prints : A decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, Metropolitan Museum of Seoul, 1998, p189
- Mary Eagle and Tom Middlemost, Landscape, Charles Sturt University Art Collection, Wagga Wagga 1998
- Kerry-Anne Cousins, G.W.Bot: Poet and Prophet, Muse, Canberra 1998/9, p8
- David Lee, Artist's Eye - G.W.Bot , Art Review, London, Nov. 1999, p47
- Anne Gray, Inner Outback, Printmaking Today, Vol 9 no1, Ferrand Press, London, 2000 pp10-11
G W Bot Artist's Publications
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- The Spartans, text by L.F.Fitzhardinge, illustrations G.W.Bot, Thames and Hudson, London 1980
- Cover Design, Social Images 1891-1991, ed R. Joyce, Goanna Print, Canberra 1991
- Blast, ed A. Nugent and B. Tully, no.15, 1991
- Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush, Vol 3, Raft Press, Canberra 1991
- The Field of Life, Goanna print, Canberra 1992
- To Walk Across a Field, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
- A Red Book, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
- A Black Book, Raft Press, Canberra 1992
- Cover Design, Brolga: An Australian Journal About Dance, no 1, December 1994
- Journeys, March 1995
- Mysteries, BB Press, Canberra 1997
- Offerings, Finlay Press and BB Press, Yabber Yabber Publications, Goulburn 1997
- The Australian Wilderness and Garden: Language, Calligraphy and Semiotics, exhibition catalogue, Hart Gallery, London July 1999, Goanna Print, Canberra 1999